Trying out wordpress for the iPhone. I helped to conduct an interview for a senior Dev role yesterday and one thing I did not know is how to ask a question to determine whether he really had in depth knowledge of a programming language and frameworks. Vic asked a question on finalizers from which he based his judgment. So my goal when I conduct an interview next is to be able to ask more effective questions from which I can gather something meaningful. The questions I asked yesterday could not tell me whether the person was an outstanding developer or not.
Also a major issue happened yesterday which I felt I could have handled better. Trying to focus on what went wrong instead of taking it personally. I have a tendency to take the things I do too personally and seriously. Like what happened with respect to the pub quiz event. I knew it wasn’t within my control that the event called cancelled last min but I still felt really bad for the pub owners.
Back to the issue yesterday:
1. I should have gotten Vic to join the call much earlier on.
2. Should have checked all the logs earlier on instead of basing it on what I had known earlier. My assumption led to the issue taking longer to resolve.
3. How to make it easier to inspect all the logs at once to get a bird’s eye view of the situation?
